28. IX. 1921

Comrade Ordzhonikidze!

I request that you reach an agreement with Comrade Krumyn, editor of the Council of Labor and Defense organ *Economic Life*, regarding the establishment of correspondence from the Caucasus:
a) permanent,
b) non-permanent, especially from workers and peasants.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First published in 1959

in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Published from the manuscript